Robert Wyatt quits music

Veteran rocker Robert Wyatt is hanging up his microphone after 50 years in the music industry. The singer and multi-instrumentalist, who founded influential prog-rock band Soft Machine, will not be making any more new music as he wants to dedicate his life to looking after himself and his wife, Alfie.
Wyatt, 69, is currently nursing a broken foot and admits the injury has prompted him to assess his current situation, leading to his decision to stop making records.
He tells Uncut magazine, “I thought, train drivers retire when they’re 65, so I will, as well. I’ve stopped, I don’t really know why actually. And I do feel a bit… weird about it, but life is physically much harder for me and for Alfie. It’s getting a bit scary, and I can’t sit around, messing around, thinking up new tunes in that, really. We’re just getting through the day now, and trying to have a bit of fun when we can.
“At the moment ,I’ve broken my foot and I’m sitting on a bed with my foot up. It happens, these things… I would say I’ve stopped, it’s a better word than retired. Fifty years in the saddle, it’s not nothing. It’s completely unplanned, my life, and it’s just reached this particular point.”